The daily gossip: January 21, 2020

1. The internet is still going wild over Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's SAG Awards reunion

How devoted is #TeamBraniston? Two days after Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's brief reunion backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards — and 15 years after their divorce — fans are still trying to decipher whether the buzzy moment was (1) just a random and friendly encounter at an industry event or (2) a secret signal that the former couple is going to elope and get remarried. The not-so-convincing evidence for the latter includes in-depth analysis from a professed "body language expert," who says she saw proof Aniston and Pitt's love "never died" in their eye contact and physical touch. The evidence for the former is, well, everything else.

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2. Prince Harry has arrived in Canada

Nearly two weeks since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their plans to "step back" from the British royal family, Harry has finally joined Meghan in Canada. The prince was photographed departing a jet on Vancouver Island on his way to join Markle and their baby son Archie at a nearby mansion. The pair reportedly plan to spend most of their time in Canada as they back away from the royal family — but how far away can you really feel when your grandma's picture is on every coin you spend?

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3. Daniel Craig really did try to quit playing James Bond in 2015

In an instantly infamous interview published at the release of 2015's Spectre, Daniel Craig said "it would only be for the money" if he ever played James Bond again. But with Craig returning to the role of 007 for what he swears is actually the last time in the upcoming No Time to Die, producer Barbara Broccoli revealed that Craig really did try to quit the role a few years ago. "He felt at the end of the last movie he'd kind of done it," said Broccoli. "I said to him, 'I don't think you have, I think there's still more of the story of your Bond to tell.' Fortunately, he came around to agree with that." (And frankly, we're pretty sure the aforementioned money didn't hurt either.)

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4. Taylor Swift says making Cats was 'the best experience'

The past month has been a wild ride for the Cats movie, which went from an Oscar hopeful to a critically maligned flop to a "so bad it's good" experience newly championed by lovers of cinematic trainwrecks. But there's at least one Cats star who doesn't regret her experience: Taylor Swift, who says she "had a really great time working on that weird-ass movie." Unfortunately, that doesn't mean Swift thinks her Cats song "Beautiful Ghosts" has "a snowball's chance in hell" of winning any gold this awards season — because "a hairball's chance in hell" would have been a little too on the nose.

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5. Dolittle could lose as much as $100 million

Movie audiences didn't show much interest in talking to the animals over the weekend, and Robert Downey Jr.'s big-budget Dr. Dolittle reboot, simply titled Dolittle, earned just $30 million in the United States on a production budget of $175 million. Based on the weak opening weekend, some box-office experts expect that Dolittle could lose as much as $100 million for Universal unless the movie does unexpectedly well in countries like the U.K. and China, where it will premiere over the next few weeks. Our advice? Change the title to Iron Man 4 and sell it as a very, very unconventional Avengers spinoff.

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